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Carbon Tracker report says five Asian countries will account for most of new coal investment, but virtually none of these investments will be profitable.

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Team behind project at United Downs site near Redruth say power plant will be producing electricity and heat by next year

It has taken a decade of hard graft – and some bold, imaginative thinking – but a plume of steam finally exploded into the clear Cornish air, a signal of what is being heralded as a breakthrough for an energy project that taps into the hot rocks of the far south-west of Britain.

The blast of steam at the United Downs site near Redruth, once a global mining capital, is being billed as proof that deep geothermal power can be part of the solution to the UK’s search for alternative sources of energy.

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Adopting insect protein in pig and poultry feed could reduce UK soya consumption by a fifth by 2050, says WWF study

Insect protein in animal feed could replace 20% of the UK’s soya consumption by 2050, according to a report by WWF.

The study, which sets out a plan for the UK to accelerate the adoption of insect protein in animal feed, also found that just under half of the demand for the protein could be met by British producers.

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Federal environment minister Sussan Ley wrote an opinion article saying the reef didn't deserve to be the poster child for climate change perils. We disagree. Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University Jon C. Day, PSM, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Professor, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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AGL has dumped coal into a new entity, but as it looks to technologies such as battery storage and hydrogen, it may find it still has too much gas.

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Victorian government commits more than $15 million to establish new battery and hydrogen research hubs in partnership with Deakin University.

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Pet owners with Covid could infect about 20% of cats and dogs, although most symptoms are mild.

To get out of Australia's climate funk we need to make climate policy loud again, and challenge Morrison's fantasy of a quiet and unambitious Australia.

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Thirteen general market participants opened Compliance Instrument Tracking Service System (CITSS) accounts over Q2 2021 as California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices soared to all-time highs on the secondary market, data released by California regulator ARB on Wednesday showed.

A Virginia-based industry group advocated Wednesday for a court to void the state's RGGI regulation and declare the programme an illegal carbon tax, while the state argued the final rule conformed to the specific directives of the state legislature.

EU carbon prices are unlikely to see much more upside ahead of the scheduled mid-July release of major market reforms, and then they could partially unwind some of this year’s rally during the second half of 2021, analysts from a major investment bank said Wednesday.

The US president blamed the climate crisis for a record-breaking heatwave when he met governors from western states as fierce wildfires burn in northern California. 'Climate change is driving a dangerous confluence of extreme heat and prolonged drought,' Biden said. 'Wildfires are not a partisan phenomenon. They don't stop at a county or a state line or country line for that matter.'

• Heatwave: Biden and Harris meet western governors as region in emergency
• Joe Biden blames climate crisis for deadly heatwave in western US and Canada

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Given the scale of the problem, five years was never enough time to turn things around. Clearly, we must reflect honestly on our successes and failures so far. Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Ayesha Tulloch, DECRA Research Fellow, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EUAs extended their six-week high on Wednesday to close in on their all-time record, as surging gas prices and optimism about the bloc's market reforms outweighed pressure from Britain's fortnightly auction.

RGGI auction revenues could ease the burden on Pennsylvania coal communities that could see power plant closures in the coming years as more coal-fired generation becomes unprofitable, according to think-tank analysis published on Wednesday.

Campaigners criticise appointment of Michael Gill as ICAO’s director of legal affairs and external relations

Environmental groups have criticised the UN body tasked with cutting global aircraft emissions for hiring a former senior airline industry lobbyist to a senior role.

Campaigners say the recruitment of Michael Gill to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) reflects its flaws and bias toward the industry.

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One of the world's largest eagles has "nearly zero" chance of surviving deforestation, study shows.

Without an immediate global effort to combat the climate emergency, the Earth’s uninhabitable areas will keep growing

The climate crisis means that summer is a time of increasingly dangerous heat. This week in the Pacific north-west, temperature records are not just being broken, they are being obliterated. Temperatures reached a shocking 47.9C in British Columbia, Canada. Amid temperatures more typically found in the Sahara desert, dozens have died of heat stress, with “roads buckling and power cables melting”.

Related: How did a small town in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?

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Vestas increases investment in Swedish wooden wind turbine manufacturer Modvion.

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